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For 600 city workers, pay raise will have to wait a couple more weeks
A new contract between the city of Salem and 600 employees will have to wait another day due to a last-minute cancellation. The Salem City Council was scheduled to ratify on Monday night the new labor agreement with Local 2067 of the American Federation of…
Residents challenge Salem’s early plans for city’s future
Salem’s comprehensive plan will soon get overhauled for the first time since its creation in the 1970s, but the work is already off to a rocky start. The comprehensive plan guides everything from where homes can be built to how parks are managed. It has…
New task force to look into Salem’s revenues
Salem City Hall pictured over the summer. Salem City Council on Monday appointed a 14-person task force to look at the ways the city currently makes money and how it might make more. (File/Salem Reporter) While the private sector enjoys one of the longest economic…
Congestion task force to recommend 18 ideas to ease downtown traffic
The Marion Street Bridge in early September. A task force has since February worked on ideas to cut traffic congestion around the bridges and will soon present ideas to Salem City Council. (Moriah Ratner/Special to Salem Reporter) Travel times over Salem’s downtown bridges could be…
Report: Salem’s lack of communication during water crisis fueled disarray
The city of Salem’s initial response to cyanotoxins breaching the water supply this summer caused a frenzy, an independent report found. The 34-page report, conducted by Ohio-based Novak Consulting Group, found that the city focused too much on sensational messaging and not enough on getting…
Salem, cities must disclose arrest records even involving child abuse, appeals court says
The city of Salem lost a case in the Oregon Court of Appeals last week that could have broader implications on the disclosure of arrest records. The appellate court last Thursday overturned a Marion County Circuit Circuit ruling that supported the city when it withheld…
$6 million gone as Salem’s third bridge plan idles
A task force on Friday will wrap up its work on Salem traffic congestion that could be one more step away from the long-discussed third bridge in downtown Salem. (Special to Salem Reporter/Benjamin Brink) While many in the state play armchair planner with the Interstate…